Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 850 attorneys among 18 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1853, it is the oldest law firm in the city of Chicago.

In the past two decades, a series of mergers, office openings, and lateral hires has resulted in a global law firm spanning 15 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia. Throughout its history, Winston & Strawn has handled many significant, high-profile matters for its clients, including its organizing the Union Stockyard and Transit Company in 1894; challenging the War Powers Act in 1944 on behalf of department store Montgomery Ward; and representing the Atlanta Braves baseball franchise in 1966 litigation involving its relocation from Milwaukee to Atlanta. More recently:

Representing Luxottica Group S.p.A. in myriad acquisitions, including its $1.6 billion hostile takeover of U.S. Shoe Corporation, owner of LensCrafters, in 1995 and its recent $2 billion acquisition of Oakley [2]

Assisting Barr Laboratories to invalidate a key patent on Prozac in a case Fortune magazine calls "the mother of all patent challenges" [3]

Achieving a decisive victory for Microsoft Corporation in the remedy phase of its battle against federal and state antitrust claims [4]

Winston & Strawn was one of the first large law firms in the country to adopt a written pro bono policy in 1991, to become a signatory to the Pro Bono Institute Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge [7], to establish a well-funded charitable foundation, and to hire a full-time Director of Public Interest Law.

Among other things, the firm has devoted hundreds of hours helping the Innocence Project, a nationally-recognized advocacy organization that seeks to exonerate persons convicted of criminal offenses based on DNA evidence. The firm's collaboration with the Project has been immensely successful, involving hundreds of attorneys, paralegals, IT staff, summer associates, and others at the firm, so that more than 200 persons who were wrongfully convicted have now been exonerated.

In 2008, the firm led the Chicago Bar Foundation's ground-breaking "Campaign for Justice," which was a city-wide effort to raise more than $1 million to support the city's 250 public interest lawyers and the 40 legal aid organizations they work for.

In addition to the base salary, associates may be eligible for a year end bonus ranging from $15,000 to $100,000. Eligibility for the year end bonus is largely determined by the number of billable hours an associate has billed throughout the year.